Some defense industry executives have said the Trump administration’s current process of finding leaders to fill senior-level roles at the Defense Department has resulted in uncertainty and slow pace of contract awards, Reuters reported Saturday.

“The still-high number of unfilled leadership appointments and the approaching government physical year-end continue to serve as headwinds,” Leidos CEO Roger Krone told analysts at an Aug. 3 call.

Krone, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, said he expects the slowdown due to unfilled DoD posts would lead to a one-year delay in the awarding of a potential $3.5 billion program – NMCI NextGen – that seeks to update the intranet of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps.

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